Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 May 1999 16:31:11 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: vgafb and old BIOSs |
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Hi Simon.
>>> Anyways, the question was how I could get a simple fb device >>> up and running on a machine with a BIOS that is not VESA 2.0 >>> compliant. It needs to have 1280x1024 in 16 bit, noone should >>> ever change resolution, depth or something. Is there some >>> driver/patch/... that could do this?
>> You don't say which video card. I have a patch that will do this >> for S3 cards which have only a VESA 1.2 BIOS.
> This sounds extraordinarily great, if it works for S3V/VX as > well, I'll be buying it... :-)
My system has a 4M S3-ViRGE/DX in it, and it runs at 1024x768x24 using the S3V driver. It would run at 1280x1024x24 except for the fact that my monitor doesn't support the necessary sync rates, there's no driver problem stopping that...
Best wishes from Riley.
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